Plenary Lecture
Artificial Intelligence in Education to Meet Student Needs
Professor Michele Della Ventura
Music Academy 'Studio Musica'
Italy
E-mail: dellaventura.michele@tin.it
Abstract: The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be hard to understand, especially when we are trying to think about how it can be applied in the educational field or in many other sectors of the society. AI is a part of our everyday lives. With AI students and teachers are able to communicate with one another; students are able to help other students and meet the students’ interests and needs. AI is also able to help students with special needs by adapting materials to lead them to success. This research is based on the use of some AI software that it is possible to use for managing the student's motivation in order to promote effective, active, efficient and satisfactory learning. In particular, an attempt was made to consider the strengths of dyslexic students in order to mitigate their weaknesses.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Michele Della Ventura, professor of Music Technology, is a learning expert, researcher and instructional designer. His research interests include correlation between music and mathematics with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence research in the field of computer-aided analysis of tonal music; intelligent systems; enhancing teaching and learning with technology; assessment for learning and strategies and models for the effective integration of technology into the curriculum at all academic levels. He is the author of several articles presented at many conferences and published in international science magazines and high school textbooks (also featured at the International Book Salon of Turin in 2012 and 2018). He proofreads articles and is a member of scientific committees in International Conferences. He was invited as keynote speaker to International Conferences in Italy, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, UK, US (Baltimora, Boston, Las Vegas, New York, Washington). Michele Della Ventura has also consulted on Big Data and Semantic Technology projects in Italy. Some of the projects include indexation of the symbolic level of musical text. He is currently involved in several researches related to technology supported learning for dyslexic students, learning through the use of social media and handheld technologies in a CLIL classroom and technology supported student’s music analysis and composition. He teaches Music Informatics in University courses at Music Academies and Conservatories and Musical Technologies in Music High Schools.